the arts to fix their abode; and here, too, will the opulent,after the money-making bustle of the morning of life, inthe meridian and in the evening of their days, becometasteful and munificent. The native marbles of South St.Louis, Ste. Genevieve, and of Pulaski, on the Osage, willbe speedily introduced by the builders of the city, thatimprovement in architecture may keep pace with the un-exampled accumulation of wealth in St. Louis. To dojustice to St. Louis in a description of its component parts,natural and artificial, would require more space than canbe appropriated in a gazetteer, in which is traced somebrief notices of every section of a state that classes withthe largest in the union."

The commercial importance which St. Louis has attain-ed, has naturally created jealousy in the minds of manywho inhabit other growing and busy towns, above thiscity, on the great rivers, and in the interior of the coun-try. The inimitable and oft quoted sentence of CaptainToby, which Mone puts in his mouth when addressing thefly that had annoyed the old gentleman, micht here beAppropriately repeated: "There is room enough in theworld for both thee and me!" Other towns may enterinto energetic and active competition with St. Louis; they"may flourish, or may fade, "—still this proud city, whileconducting with them a mutually beneficial traffic, willremain prominent, sustained with the capital, enterprise,and intelligence, which form a basis only paralleled in sta-bility by the foundation on which it slands. and the felici-tous location chosen by its wise and liberal founders.

In casting the eye over the map of the United States andTerritories, it must always forcibly strike the observer,that the central position of St. Louis gives this eity a pe-culiar advantage: and it is known, that, when navigationis open, steam vessels are arriving from, and departing,daily, to all the cardinal points of the compass. The re-volution of governments and in commerce have buUt upand destroyed cities; the vicissitudes of fortune have de-populated towns and countries; but nothing except thegreat convulsions of Nature—earthquakes and hurncanee,the pestilence and sword—can arrest the advancement of